Football and climate change: Strange bedfellows or a means of going beyond the usual suspects in encouraging pro-environmental behavioural change?

Local Environment

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 851-866

  Baldwin, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community; Context; Football; Pro environmental behavioural change

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; CLIMATE CHANGE; COGNITION; COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; POLICY MAKING;

POLYOMMATINAE;

EID: 78650043624     PISSN: 13549839     EISSN: 14696711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2010.531252     Document Type: Article

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